The government will be protecting and safeguarding every pensioner who will be affected by the protected rents reform. This was the message relayed by Minister for Social Accommodation Roderick Galdes during a virtual meeting with the National Association of Pensioners, in which the proposed law and its workings were explained to those present.
Minister Galdes reiterated that the substantial benefit...
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Prime Minister Robert Abela welcomed Glen Vella, the winner of the Maltese Music Festival ‘Mużika Mużika’, at the Auberge de Castille.
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Prime Minister Robert Abela welcomed Glen Vella, the winner of the Maltese Music Festival ‘Mużika Mużika’, at the Auberge de Castille.
Dr Robert Abela reiterated that this festival is serving as a prestigious platform for Maltese language music and gives an opportunity to local singers, authors and composers to showcase their talents.
He concluded that the government will continue to give...
Education Minister Justyne Caruana is in hospital for observation after she was admitted to Mater Dei Hospital earlier in the day.
Her condition is stable.
Parks Malta started a green project in the Belvedere area, where several plants were planted in Triq Wied iż-Żurrieq. The selected plants complement the ecosystem found in this area and the environment that this area offers.
During a visit by the Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Miriam Dalli, together with the Director-General of Parks Malta Adrian Attard and...
Air Malta has welcomed the European Commission’s proposal of a “digital green certificate” that would allow EU citizens who have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from Covid-19 to travel more freely within the EU.
The proposal is aimed to facilitate the safe free movement inside the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic and support the restart of travel through the...
Health authorities report that 90 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in the past 24 hours, the lowest number of new cases for a considerable time.
With 212 people recovering from the virus, active cases have now fallen to 2,479.
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More than 50,000 trees planted by Infrastructure Malta in two and a half years
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During a visit at Tas-Salib in Rabat, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg announced that in two and a half years Infrastructure Malta has already planted more than 50,000 trees around the country.
Minister Ian Borg commented on how the agency, in the first quarter of 2021, planted 10,000 trees – an amount which is already close...
Ten people were killed, including a police officer, when a gunman opened fire in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, USA, on Monday.
A man has been taken into police custody.
It is the second mass shooting in a week in America.
Eight people died in a mass shooting at three Asian massage parlours on Friday in Atalanta, Georgia.
A 59-year-old Italian man who lives in Mellieha was seriously injured following a collision with a police car in Qormi on Monday night.
The accident happened in St Edward Street in Qormi shortly after midnight.
The officers in the car gave in injured man first aid until an ambulance arrived and took him to Mater Dei Hospital.
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Scotland’s First Minister did not break ministerial code: Independent inquiry reports
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon did not breach the ministerial code, according to an independent inquiry by Ireland's former chief prosecutor, James Hamilton.
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